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thus raised. Unfortunately the plant represented by fig. 22 
and its box of seedlings, died the following winter ; the thirty 
seedlings, however, of plant 23 developed into forms some 
leaves of which are shown on Pl. V., figs. 24-36. Among 
these will be found plants very similar to their parent, as 
well as forms of S. Geum and S. umbrosa, with several 
remarkable variants. 
The present writer’s opinion that S. Geum (sensu stricto) 
is a decreasing species in Kerry has been already referred to 
in the Introduction. Whether this decrease is due to changed 
climatic conditions, the natural tendency of an Island flora 
to diminish, or to the aggressive action of its more hardy 
ally S. umbrosa and their hybrid forms, it is impossible to 
say. 
Outside of Kerry and Cork, Linné’s S. Geum appears to 
have a very restricted range,* being confined, according to 
Willkomm and Lange, to the Pyrenees and to northern Spain 
and Portugal, with outlying stations amongst the Alps and 
Carpathians. It is stated in Britton and Brown’s Flora of 
the Northern States and Canada to occur in Newfoundland, 
where it appears to be the sole representative of the Robert- 
sonian group present. It would be of great interest to learn 
if it there exhibits the same range of leaf-forms that it does 
in south-west Ireland and the Pyrenees. In Kerry this 
interesting member of the Cantabrian group attains its 
extreme northern limit in Europe, about 8} degrees of 
latitude separating the Irish from the nearest Pyrenean 
localities. 
In the Appendix is given a suggested arrangement of 
the various forms of S. Geum and its hybrids met with in 
Kerry. 
S. umbrosa Linn. Fox’s Cabbage. London Pride. 
Districts I. Il. WI. IV. V. VI. VI. — — 
Native. On mountains and in rocky or shady places, &c. 
Common and locally abundant, but absent from the north 
* The recent discovery by Mr. Praeger of a form of this plant on Clare 
Island off the coast of Mayo, is very interesting. It is a plant with roundish, 
non-cordate leaves with acute serrations, and can be referred to S. Geum 
sensu lato only. It suggests to the writer a much wider distribution of the 
typical plant in former times, a distribution indicated by this survival in 
Clare Island, and in perhaps a few other favourably situated spots along the 
west coast, of one of its more hardy hybrid forms, 
